I’m a sucker for a good zombie book, and while my zombie based reading is mostly in comic form (The Walking Dead), one book in particular stood out for me this year, being a completely different take on the standard zombie tale. This is a love story, told from the point of view of a [...]
2011 has been a strong year for both British and American TV, with some outstanding comedy, and some other, much darker stuff as well. I’ve written a bit about my particular highlights here. For me though, one show stood out above the rest for sheer enjoyment, and it was Trollied, on Sky1. The first sitcom [...]
Being as 2011 is drawing to a close, I figured I’d follow convention for once and start rounding up all my favourite things from the year. To start with, I thought I’d go with television, and give you a brief description of some of the things that I liked most on the tellybox this last [...]
So, this year is drawing to a close, and I thought I’d inflict on you some of the highlights of my year. Then I realised the general highlight was winning £12.80 on the Euromillions, and I’ve managed to impart that knowledge in the space of one sentence. So instead, I’ve decided to write a bit [...]
Top 10 – Movie Deaths (Part 2)
Following on from part one of my Top 10 Movie Deaths, here’s the rest of the countdown, from 5 to 1. 5. Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future- This is a movie death that serves as a bit of a shock. Why kill off one of the main characters right at the beginning [...]
Today, a breakthough. I had Twitter access, if only for a few minutes. I used these moments wisely, to let the world at large to know I was ok, alive, and most of all, in a pub. We’d spent the early part of the afternoon at a distillery on the edge of Aberfeldy, Dewar’s World [...]
We are on a holiday in a remote cottage in Scotland. As such, I am currently into my second day without any mobile phone signal or internet access. It’s very strange. On a day to day basis, I generally converse with loads of people on Twitter, and even if I barely say anything, I still [...]
Yesterday morning, I awoke, as I usually do, just before my wife’s alarm goes off, at around about 6 o’clock. This means one of two things. One, that my wife will be leaving for work soon, and two, I can then go back to sleep for another hour or so. Imagine my surprise when I [...]
Last weekend saw the annual Calverhall and Ightfield Family Fun Day, as always, a great day out. My favourite part of the day is the display from the Whitchurch Dog Display Team. They always put on a great show, and it’s clear to see the dogs love it as much as the handlers do. The [...]
There is no easy way to say this. Steady yourself, and try not to stress about it. I am sat on the toilet at work. There. We all do it, it’s nothing new. So, I am sat, doing what mother nature intended, playing Angry Birds, and I hear a noise from a different cubicle. It’s [...]
It’s quarter past 7 on a Friday night, and I find myself in a queue at a leisure centre in Stoke. We’re here for some roller skating, having seen an advert that said you could turn up to have a bit of a skate around. But something seemed wrong. I glanced around. And then, it [...]
This week. For me, this week has been a very strange one. In all honesty, I’m not sure I’ve been living in the same world I did seven days ago. In some slightly odd circumstances, I made my way the few miles up the road from my house, to Nantwich, a Cheshire border town, where [...]
I am sat at a table in a Harvester restaurant. Our meals have been delivered, and I can see a waiter heading toward us. I am worried. Here is why… Over the last couple of years, I’ve developed a particular trait when visiting restaurants. Actually, it’s two traits, and I appear to have little or [...]
This morning, as I left the house, my wife asked me what the weather looked like. Opening the front door, I replied, “It’s lovely, although it’s looking a bit Winkleman.” “It’s a bit what?” came the baffled reply. I perservered, “You know, it’s a bit Winkleman.”. Silence. “You know, Winkleman….. Cloudier.” I offer. Nothing. “Like [...]
Welcome to the all new looking adverse-camber. How exciting! Bear with me for a little while, I’m still in the process of adding loads of content and thinking of things to say, but hopefully over the coming days and weeks, this sort of rambling to fill space will be a thing of the past. We’ll [...]
